<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>61-0123, Be Not Afraid, It Is I, American Legion Hall, Beaumont, TX, 114 min
L-1 So good to be here again tonight. We just had a wonderful time yesterday, and I've been living in the atmosphere of the yesterday's meeting all day today. So I'm happy to be in the service of the Lord tonight. Now, with so many waiting, or standing rather, that I should say standing, rather, that--we're sorry that we don't have the adequate room for seating, but we know that, if you'll just be patient with us a little while, the Lord will certainly reward you. I hope He does, and I'm sure He will, because He always rewards those who are patiently and tho... "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, and they shall mount up with an--wings like an eagle."
Now, the last few nights, or days, I just been preaching kinda to you and having the small calling lines, and so forth. I kinda believe I owe it to the sick people tonight to pray for the sick, because there so many of them here, and I told the boys to give out some prayer cards this afternoon. I guess they did, or did they? Did they? That's fine, all right. We'll... Thank you, Brother Gene. We will call them up just in a few moments.
I asked Brother Moore to speak for me tonight. Only thing I'd have to do is come in, pray for the sick. Did you do it? Anybody want a job following me, speaking for me? Oh, around on the...?... Oh, my. Well, I am...

L-2 These handkerchiefs here that's sent up here to be prayed over, now, we reverently believe in praying for these cloths. Now, we remember that this is a Bible doctrine to pray over these cloths. Now, many people anoint them with oil and send them back to the patients. We send thousands of them a month around the world. And if you don't have one in here, if you just write our office why, we'll sure send it to you free of charge, no charges for anything we do. So...
In the Bible, if you'll bear with me, I believe, Scripturally, Paul never prayed over them or anointed them; they taken from his body. I believe Paul was Scriptural, don't you think so? Would you like to know where I think he got that from? Elijah one time, when a baby was dead, Elijah said to Gehazi, "Take my staff and go, lay it on the child." Now, Elijah knew that the Holy Spirit upon him, and everything he touched was blessed. And he said, "Take this staff and lay it on the baby." I think there's where Paul got the idea of laying--taking handkerchiefs and aprons from his body, because I wouldn't think that Saint Paul would do anything unscriptural. So he sent...
Now, we realize, that we're not Saint Paul. But He's still Jesus. See? He's still God. So God, being no respect of persons, He sends your pastors, and evangelists, and things along, that you might have the same faith in the same God that Saint Paul represented. And then if we have the same ministry that Saint Paul had, the same things take place in our ministry, take places--took place in Saint Paul's meeting.

L-3 Now, just before we--or tonight before we start praying for the sick, I--I want to lay hands on those handkerchiefs and pray for them. Many times... I've got pictures, you notice in the books there, from South Africa where they had, I believe sixteen or eighteen grass sack fulls. One nights service, just great big, we call them, I guess they're burlap sacks and stuffed full of handkerchiefs and letters and things. And one of the reporters said, "Brother Branham's very superstitious, he was praying over cloths," handkerchiefs. That they don't know the Scripture; that's all. They're lovely people; they just don't understand. That's the way a lot of it is today; they're all nice people, but many times just don't understand. So we just bear with that...?...


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